The Dominican-American writer Elizabeth Acevedo is the first author of colour to be awarded the Carnegie Medal—and she says pupils seeking greater representation spurred her... Read more
Library and information association CILIP has opened up nominations for the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards to other industry bodies and is introducing a ‘children’s... Read more
Geraldine McCaughrean and Sydney Smith have won the 2018 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals respectively, with Amnesty honours going to Angie Thomas and Levi... Read more
A change in culture must take place in the way the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards are administered "with no more buck... Read more
CILIP has announced that Margaret Casely-Hayford, the chair of charity ActionAid UK, is to lead a review into the diversity of its Carnegie and Kate... Read more
Inclusivity in children’s literature is improving but there is still a lot of progress to be made in order to reflect modern realities for young... Read more
CILIP will launch an independent review of its Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals following the controversy that was sparked by its 2017 Carnegie Medal longlist,... Read more
Illustrators are now listed on the CILIP Carnegie 2016 nominations list, revealed today, following last year’s complaint from author/illustrator Sarah McIntyre.
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Next year’s CILIP Carnegie Medal will be open to English translations of foreign language books for the first time. Joy Court, chair of the working... Read more
Tinder by Sally Gardner and David Roberts (Orion Children’s Books) is in the running for a double CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway win after appearing... Read more
